Alison N.C. Reiheld
Associate Professor
Peck Hall, Room 3214
areihel@siue.edu / 618-650-2574
PhD Michigan State University, 2010
Special Position: Major Advisor
Courses Taught
- Philosophy 320: Ethics
- Philosophy 321: Ethics in the Medical Community
- Philosophy 323: Engineering Ethics
- PHIL/WMST 343: Feminist Theory
- PHIL/WMST 344: Women & Values
- HONS 320: Honors Seminar: Pain & Suffering (with Dr. Keith Hecht, SIUE School of Pharmacy)
Research Interests
Dr. Reiheld specializes in ethics and value theory, with a focus on medical ethics and feminist philosophy. In addition to her research on the ethics of memory, Dr. Reiheld's work covers a broad array of issues--disability, gender, transgender, reproduction, civility--unified by concerns about how power operates upon vulnerable persons in social institutions, including health care settings.
Representative Publications
"Patient complains of...: How medicalization mediates power and justice." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3(1): 72-98. 2010.
"The Event That Was Nothing: Miscarriage as a Liminal Event." Journal of Social Philosophy 46(1): 9-26. 2015
"Rightly or for Ill: The Ethics of Individual Memory." Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 28(4): 377-410. 2018.
You can find her CV, including active links to most of her publications, here.
